Garment-hanger.



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ATTESTI I INvmToR THE mum's PET-ER! C0,, WASHINGTON, n. c.

, Patented Sept. 29, 1908.

v UNITED STATES rATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK w. VAN' NORTWIOK, or CLEVELAND, onro, ASSIGNOR,BY manor AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THEN. & W. UP-HANG COMPANY, or cLEvELANnoHIo, A conro- RATION or onio.

GARMENT-HANGER.

Patented Sept. 29, 1908.

Application filed December 30, 1907. Serial No. 408,468.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. ,VAri' tain new and useful Im rovements inG'ar ment-Hangers, and do eclare that the following 1s a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others Skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to garment hangers, designed when used with ents coats to take the lace of the common up-hang strips at the ack within the collar, but adaptedto be used more or less generallywith garments worn by men and'women and which ordinarily have loops or other. fixed. devices by which they are suspended from hooks or nails. In the accompanying drawings,.Figure 1 is a front view ofthe upper portion of a gent s coat, say an overcoat, equipped with one of my new and original hangers. Fig. 2 is a side elevation ofthe hangenalone, as anarticle of manufacture and sale; Fig. 3 shows the. hanger as when grasped between the thumb and fore finger and compressed in its loop portion to separate its points and engage it in or upon a garment. Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic view of the hanger and a dotted outline of a portion of a garment. engaged thereby to illustrate the actionof the hanger under tension or strain and as will hereinafter more fully appear. c c 7 The device as thus shown is-:more especially designed as a garment hanger, though not necessarily confined or limited to such use, and in any event is a complete and separate article of manufacture and sale and adapted to bemade comparatively light or heavy and large or small according to its use.

structurally the device consists of asingle piece of suitable spring wire, say of a suitable grade of steel, so as to have the proper stifiness or rigidity and fie ibilityXf Stifiness is When place 1n engageis formed with a 100 2 at its middle and two substantially hook s aped portions or hooks at its ends. These hooks lie in the same plane beneath the loop and comprise shanks relatively as shown, say one third the1r length. In use the pins 5 are engaged through the garment and loop 2 serves as the suspensory medium. To apply the device the better wayis to grip the loop between thumb and fore finger and compress it more or less and until the pin points separate, say as shown in Fig. 3, an then engage said points inthe goods first on one side and then on the other so that practically a full width of goods will be engaged relatively as shown in Fig. 1. Or if the device be too stifl to be com ressed and thus engaged the points 5 can, e s read a little laterally and run into the goo s separately and oppositely.

When in engagement the device is thoroughly locked therein, and will not pull out. In fact by reason of its peculiar construction the tendency under severe strain is to hold faster than otherwise. This is illustrated in Fig. 4 wherein the principle on which the device acts is diagrammatically illustrated. Here the points of engagement with the garment are shown in dotted lines and excessive strain presumably is upon the hook. As this occurs the easiest point of surrender is not in short bends 4 but back in the juncture of shank 3 with the ring or loop 2, so that said loop will measurably elongate and indoing this drop the other ends of the hooks and throw the hook points inward and upward, as clearly seen in Fig. 4. Thus instead of the device opening of pulling off under strain it does in fact engage more thoroughly than before, and requires relaxing to its original position before it can be removed by hand. The strain upon the ban er is distributed uniformly over both the 00p and the hook ends and this is best brought about by observing the roportions and. arrangements of parts re atively as shown.

What I claim is '1. As a new article of manufacture and sale, a garment hanger formed out of a single piece of wire and provided with a circular spring loop at its center and a pair of hooks in the same plane as said loop and oppositely disposed beneath the loop, said hooks having parallel overlapping pin portions With sharpened extremities, and the shanks of said hooks running into the said loop from op osite sides, whereby the said loop affords 516 necessary s ring for open ing the said hooks and for 'c osing the same when affixed to the garment.

2. As a new article of manufacture and sale, a hanger for garments and other articles made of spring Wire formed with a loop having parallel pin portions in the same plane therewith and extending from opposite sides thereof to meeting points centrally of the hanger, said 100 being circular and of. a diameter approximately equal to the length of said pin )ortions, whereby free spring play is afforder in attaching the said hanger to the garment and in locking the same thereon.

3. As a new article of manufacture and sale, a hanger for garments and the like formed of spring wire with a relatively large loop of circular outline and having hook portions with relatively small bends and pin ortions extending therefrom toward eac1 other and having overlapping points, said hanger being adapted to lie substantially. flush at all points upon a ilat surface.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK W. VAN NOR'IWICK.

Witnesses ARoInL LAYER, R. B. MosER. 

